Rev Your Engines Motor City | Detroit Pistons Dynasty(2k11)

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Console: 360
Game: NBA 2k11
Difficulty: All-Star w/ tweaks
Rosters: 2k Updated Rosters
Trades: On
Trade Override On(Only for deals that really make sense that don't go through)
CPU Trades: On
Salary Cap: On
Season Length: 82 Games with simming

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Front Office

OWNER:
Karen Davidson

GENERAL MANAGER
Joe Dumars



HEAD COACH
John Kuester (College - North Carolina)


ASSISTANT COACH(ES)
Brian Hill (College - Kennedy College)

ATHLETIC TRAINER
Mike Abdenour (College - Wayne State)

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HISTORY

Championships
1989
1990
2004

Basketball Hall of Fame members
Walt Bellamy, 1993
Dave Bing, 1990
Larry Brown (head coach), 2002
Chuck Daly (head coach), 1994
Adrian Dantley, 2008
William Davidson (contributor), 2008
Dave DeBusschere, 1983
Joe Dumars, 2006
Harry Gallatin, 1991
Bob Houbregs, 1987
Bailey Howell, 1997
Bob Lanier, 1992
Earl Lloyd (contributor), 2003
Bob McAdoo, 2000
Bobby McDermott, 1988
Isiah Thomas, 2000
Dick Vitale (contributor), 2008*
George Yardley, 1996
Fred Zollner (contributor), 1999

Retired Numbers
William Davidson, Banner
Jack McCloske, Banner
2 Chuck Daly, Head Coach(2 Championships)
4 Joe Dumars, G, 1985–99
11 Isiah Thomas, G, 1981–94
15 Vinnie Johnson, G, 1981–91
16 Bob Lanier, C, 1970–80
21 Dave Bing, G, 1966–75
40 Bill Laimbeer, C, 1982–94

1st Round Draft Picks
2001 - Rodney White(9th)
2002 - Tayshaun Prince(23rd)
2003 - Darko Milicic(2nd)
2005 - Jason Maxiell(26th)
2007 - Rodney Stuckey(15th)
2008 - D.J White(29th)
2009 - Austin Daye(15th)
2010 - Greg Monroe(7th)

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Looking Ahead...

Last Year’s Record: 27-55 (successfully didn't make the playoffs)
Predicted Record: 35 - 47
Key Losses:
55 of them
Kwame Brown
Chucky Atkins
Key Additions:
Greg Monroe (draft)
Terrico White (draft)
Tracy McGrady (free agent)

It's not 2004 anymore and the Detroit organization and the fans need to realize that. They are not going anywhere with the talents of Rip Hamilton, Tayshaun Prince, and Ben Wallce. Although they have done a lot for the organization and the front office seems to think they have to be loyalty to these players, but that cannot continue to happen. These once core players, are better suited helping other teams contend for titles. Whether Joe Dumars decides that he can part ways with these former key players remains to be scene, but until he does, this team will not be contending for the playoffs anytime soon, even in the weakened Eastern Conference.

The road to mediocrity started with the signings of Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva to lucrative deals that they probably didn't deserve. Last season the team was plagued with injuries all around the court, their lack of a true point guard and inside presence was enough to hold them to 27 wins.

During the off-season, the team was in no market to sign any of the big free agents that ruled the news wire. The team instead decided to bring back Ben Wallace and Will Bynum to 2 and 3 year deals, that wouldn't hurt the team in any financial way. The team also elected to sign former 2x scoring champion, and multiple All-Star Tracy McGrady. McGrady isn't getting any younger, but when healthy can he still play basketball, if McGrady remains healthy it could wind up being a steal for Detroit.

In the 2010 draft, the team selected big man Greg Monroe from Georgetown with the 7th pick. Monroe may not have the same ceiling as DeMarcus Cousins or Derrick Favors, but his skill will pay dividends for a team that couldn't buy a bucket in the post last season. In the second round of the draft, Dumars nabbed Terrico White. Everybody knows or read that Terrico is somewhat of a freak athlete, but still scoffed at the idea of him as a basketball player because, "wahhh, he's another guard!!!!1" (That's taken verbatim out of my live Gournal). Then, in an effort to not necessarily win over anybody, but to tell his doubters to go Darko themselves, he clearly, and impressively, won an impromptu rookie slam dunk contest (while his shoes were untied) and was subsequently voted most athletic rookie by the same fellow rooks (by more than twice the percentage of votes the next rookie received, who was not named John Wall -- Wall only received the third most votes). He's the kind of athlete that almost makes you hope that the ten guards in front of him have injury problems again just so you can see what he's capable of doing on the court.

So far the team has at least 1 solid corner stone piece to build around. Whether Greg Monroe can efficiently play the Center position or will be more suited as the team's Power Forward remains to be seen. Let's see what Joe Dumars has in store.

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Depth Chart

PG: SG: SF: PF: C:

Bench

G - Ben Gordon
C - Greg Monroe
G - Rip Hamilton
F - Austin Daye
F - Jason Maxiell
G - Will Bynum
F - Jonas Jerebko

Reserve

G - Terrico White
F - Chris Wilcox
F - DaJuan Summers

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Long Season Ahead...
vs

Oct 27, 2010 - DET at NJN
TEAM	1ST	2ND	3RD	4TH	SCORE
Detroit Pistons (0-1)	23	18	27	32	100
New Jersey Nets (1-0)	15	28	26	32	101

Quote:

Detroit AP - In a match up of two disappointing NBA franchises, it turned out to be an exciting one at the Izod Center in New Jersey. A few years back these were two of the top teams in the Eastern Conference, oh how the might have fallen since then. In a game where turnovers headlined and a buzzer beating shot was accomplished. With 2 seconds left down by 1, Travis Outlaw inbounded a pass to Brook Lopez as he drove and the layed the ball up flying past Ben Wallace for an easy basket as time expired. An exciting finish in New Jersey by two bad teams, who woulda thought? Tracy McGrady who received the start at Point Guard, as the team feels his veteran presence is more suited as setting people up, something he has been good at his career. That and the fact that Stuckey is also a shoot first guard, and this will give the team more chances to spread the ball around. He will need to lose the shoot first mentality he has had throughout his injury plagued career, but this game is a sign that T-Mac does in fact still possess "it". T-Mac went 8-10 from the field, sporting impressive numbers, with 20 points, 4 assists, and 4 rebounds. Sort of typical to his career numbers. Rookie Greg Monroe was impressive in his NBA Debut, going up against fellow rookie Derrick Favors. In this matchup Monroe got the better of the two, although he saw a lot more of Brook Lopez as Monroe was the delegated Center. Even though the Nets won, Monroe recorded his first career double double with 10 points and 12 rebounds in 33 minutes. In two days the Pistons will travel back home to take on Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder.

DET:
Tracy McGrady - 20 points, 4 assists, 4 rebounds
Rodney STuckey - 18 points, 8 assists
Charlie Villanueva - 15 points, 5 rebounds
Tayshaun Prince - 14 points, 6 rebounds
Greg Monroe - 10 points, 12 rebounds, 3 steals

NJN:
BRook Lopez - 22 points, 10 rebounds, 2 blocks
Damion James 20 points, 5 rebounds
Devin Harris - 17 points, 7 assists, 7 steals
Derrick Favors - 9 poiints, 6 rebounds

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Durant Drops 46 All Over Motor City
vs

Oct 29, 2010 - OKC at DET
TEAM	1ST	2ND	3RD	4TH	SCORE
Oklahoma City Thunder (2-0)	23	28	18	35	104
Detroit Pistons (0-2)	16	25	25	24	90

Quote:

Detroit AP - One thing to take away from this game is that the Pistons cannot guard the wing. They allowed 20 points to Damion James two days ago and now 46 points to Kevin Durant. Even though it is Kevin Durant, Tayshaun Prince used to be a solid defender, key word there use to be. Another thing learned today is that the Pistons have a lot of players that need minutes at the wing position and they can't evenly get all those players minutes. That and the fact all these players need their touches, whether it be Stuckey, Hamilton, Gordon, Prince, Daye, all these players need to shoot the ball and there isn't enough balls to go around for these players. The game was only kept close in the 3rd quarter when the Pistons actually wiped out a 16-point deficit to only trail by 1, but then the quarter ended the the Thunder went right back to what they do best, score and play defense. Ben Gordon scored 14 of his 18 points in the 3rd quarter. After only scoring 2 in the 1st half, Gordon was only played 19 minutes, something that has been inconsistent throughout his first year in Detroit was his playing time. Coach Kuester also can't just give more minutes game-by-game to the player that is shooting the ball well that night. Charlie Villanueva led the Pistons with 22 points and 2 rebounds, it seems Head Coach Keuster is seemingly going to give Vallaneuva his minutes and opportunity to shoot the ball, as they did pay the man a lot of money to come here. If only the same thing could be said about Ben Gordon, if Villanueva and Gordon can put up numbers like tonight, the the Pistons would have some good pieces to build around including Greg Monroe, who was in foul trouble most of the night so was unable to establish any rhythm throughout his 15 minutes of game time. Now if they can just play defense...

DET:
Charlie Villanueva - 22 points, 12 rebounds
Tracy McGrady - 19 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds
Ben Gordon - 18 points, 8 rebounds
Rip Hamilton - 11 points, 5 rebounds

OKC:
Kevin Durant - 46 points, 8 rebounds, 5-18 3PT
James Harden - 17 points
Russell Westbrook - 17 points 18 assists, 4 rebounds
Jeff Green - 12 points
Serge Ibaka - 6 points, 12 rebounds

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fml guys i don't know if anyone was following but when i went to save, as it was saving the game froze. i figured no big deal so i turned off the 360 and loaded the franchise and it says the file was corrupted. fml